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Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide

This guide was created as an overview of the Linux Operating System, geared toward new users as an exploration tour and getting started guide, with exercises at the end of each chapter.
For more advanced trainees it can be a desktop reference, and a collection of the base knowledge needed to proceed with system and network administration. This book contains many real life examples derived from the author's experience as a Linux system and network administrator, trainer and consultant. They hope these examples will help you to get a better understanding of the Linux system and that you feel encouraged to try out things on your own.

Just got a new graphics card, the Radeon HD 6850. I know not what I currently have installed driver-wise, but once installed it immediately worked. I, hoping to optimize speed, installed the new Catalyst 11.12 drivers. However, after rebooting when prompted to do so, my system started in Gnome3 fallback mode, and would not work properly. I rebooted several times, bu to no avail. I found the uninstall, and uninstalled the catalyst driver. Upon rebooting, my system was fixed. However, I would like to know which version of catalyst will work with my system, and weather it would be possible to install 11.12 in a different way to allow Gnome 3 to function normally.

As I recall, when you perform the install from a .iso disk, you would have a function key at the bottom of the screen labeled Driver. I haven't run through the routine, but you should be able to copy the driver onto a USB drive and install it along with the rest of your system.

Well I tried installing it from ATI's driver website. The install disk was only for windows. I eventually gave up trying to get the official version to work, and used yum to install drivers from the repositories. Unfortunately, the card runs much slower here than it does running under Windows with the official drivers from the website. I do not like using Windows, though, and would prefer to be able to run graphics-intense applications under Linux (Fedora). For example, I can play a small game (Minecraft) with 20FPS under Linux and about 120 FPS under Windows. And no, I am not installing from an .iso, and I already did the aticonfig. Nothing worked.